stirring
Example Sentences
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The line, he recalled, instantly transported him back to his childhood in Cardiff, stirring "all of those feelings of not being Welsh, of being different. It struck a nerve... it was really raw".
From BBC
Grandma already had a pot of milk on the woodstove, and now she was stirring in the chocolate.
From Literature
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Strikes continued to pummel targets in Iran on Sunday, at times stirring up the already emotional crowds.
"Every day is the same hunger, the same misery", he says, stirring a pot of white rice – so at the very least his daughter will come home from school to something hot to eat.
From BBC
Reviewers called Kane’s work “magnificent,” “stirring,” and recommended it “be in the hands of parents and school children” everywhere.
From Literature
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